Sublime

The Sublime and the Beautiful as Explained by Edmund Burke This philosophical enquiry is difficult to summarize because the excerpt that we have to work with is selections from a larger work showing his main ideas. So what I am going to try and do is just go through his main ideas from the beginning to the end. Starting with his thoughts on pleasure and pain and ending with actual questions on the sublime and …

…people are willing to do for money all show that people are remembering something similar to the pleasure they are expecting to get after they complete this event and put up with whatever adversity they have to in anticipation of their sought after rewards. I agree that their still might be a difference between the lasting impact of pleasure and pain on the body and mind, but it’s not radically different as Burke proposes.